Newly Discovered Whale Species Named With A Nod To Moby Dick

Alexandra Boersma, lead researcher on a study published WednesdayAlbicetus Moby Dick

“While we don’t know what a skin tone in life indeed looked like, a tone of a hoary is an pallid white,” Pyenson pronounced in a press release. 

“It usually seemed suitable to elicit [Herman] Melville’s white spermatazoa whale, Moby Dick

Below, an interactive 3D digest of a fossil

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